Dec 13, 2012
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Greenway: Halve driving commute time and CO2 pollution from idling with this centralized traffic-optimized navigation system!
There are some potential "big-brother" concerns with implementation, as well as person-level resistance to taking different routes all the time (and I'm not sure if it will require critical mass of adopters to work at all), but it's a very interesting idea, and an impressive prototype implementation!
Heart-warming inspiring story of a boy from Sierra Leone who made batteries using materials from a dumpster to power his own FM station, and how a visionary MIT Media Lab student is trying to support him and others like him to innovate and chart the way forward for developing nations.
A good reminder of just how much work it takes to make truly great products.
An example of how important problem representations can be. This very cool presentation (which is primarily about the current cutting edge in natural speech translation systems) includes a discussion of how the problem space for natural language processing (recognition, translation) has evolved over the years, nicely illustrating the importance of correct problem representations and tools. If we treat as a pattern matching problem, we're liable to fail or put limits on what we can do. If we treat it as a statistical modeling problem (AND we have the capacity to get big data to train the models), then we can start cooking with gas!
Like Zipcar, for bikes. There's also versions of this for scooters. Nice example of "design-by-analogy". Wouldn't it be nice to know precisely how the idea of bikesharing was born? Did someone(s) one day look at Zipcars moving around and wonder, "Why can't we do that with bikes?"